Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk Family
Career series with 1 positions across 1 levels
Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk 3 is a New Jersey state civil service title.
What it takes is 2 years of relevant experience.
Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk is a single-title classification family: Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk 3 is the only position in it. Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk supervises titles such as Clerk and Clerk Stenographer.
Positions in This Family
What the Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk family covers
In New Jersey's classification plan, Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk stands alone. The family holds one title code rather than a graded series.
Financial titles are unusually legible compared with the rest of the plan, because the duties track a professional body of practice rather than an agency's internal structure. That makes the ladders predictable, the qualification language consistent, and movement between departments straightforward. It also makes them one of the better-documented corners of the state payroll, since almost every department employs some of them, so the headcount and salary figures for these families rest on large samples rather than a handful of positions.
Two jobs in one title
Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk is a consolidated title: one position carrying the duties of Principal Payroll Clerk and Clerk at once, held by a single employee expected to do both. They exist because a borough or authority with a single crew cannot justify a separate post per function, so the combined duties get their own classification.
Separately, Clerk is its own family of 17 title codes across 4 levels. This consolidation holds 1 code, which is the usual pattern, since a consolidated title is normally created for the one jurisdiction that asked for it. Read the component specifications alongside this one, because the requirements of both halves apply.
What each title does
The published specification opens with this definition of the work.
- Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk 3: Under general supervision of a Supervisory Payroll Clerk or other supervisor, performs complex and highly responsible clerical…
What it takes to qualify
None of the specifications in this family names a degree requirement, which places these titles among the New Jersey positions open to applicants without formal higher education. Experience requirements sit at 2 years wherever they are stated.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Payroll Clerk (local jurisdiction)
- Payroll Clerk ($39,358 to $56,481, state jurisdiction)
- Senior Payroll Clerk (local jurisdiction)
- Senior Payroll Clerk ($39,358 to $56,481, state jurisdiction)
- Principal Payroll Clerk (local jurisdiction)
- Principal Payroll Clerk ($46,727 to $67,528, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk jobs
How many separate Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk classifications does New Jersey have?
The Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is a Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk paid?
No state salary schedule figure is published for the titles in this family, which is normal for local classifications. Local civil service employers set their own pay by ordinance or negotiated agreement, so the rate depends on which county, municipality or authority is hiring.
What are the requirements to become a Principal Payroll Clerk / Clerk?
No degree requirement is parsed from the specifications in this family, which puts these titles among the New Jersey civil service jobs reachable without formal higher education. Experience of 2 years is named where a requirement is stated.